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[WP] Every year in late July as the moon is shining high a mysterious figure visits the local graveyard and sprinkles salt around the perimeter. | [
"Our quaint town of Brooke holds many cold secrets, between the child corpses discovered dangling high up in gargantuan trees, to a mysterious system of steam tunnels running labyrinth-like in twisted passages underneath the town, to the Brooke cemetery where a senile old gravedigger encircles the cemetery In salt ... | 2 | |
[WP]You are in a prison cell for a long time. The only thing you can see is the red sky from the window. You dont remember how much time passed, why are you here, who you are, the only thing you hear is the endless singing of a woman with magical voice. One day, the cells door opens... | [
"Was I ever anywhere else? Was I ever a different person? I know I'm locked up, but I don't remember a personal freedom. Within these walls, I know only that bright red sky and that voice that calls me to harken it's message. It has such a nostalgic feel to it, welling up old memories from time to time. Not who I w... | 1 | |
[WP] The skeleton inside your body has decided to take you to court for keeping it captive within your fleshy prison. | [
"\"May the defendant please rise.\"\nI rolled my eyes.\n\"May the defendant...Oh for heaven's sake, somebody get him up already.\"\nThe judge watched with annoyance as I was slowly being pulled to my feet.\n\"What do you have to say for yourself?\"\nI wanted to laugh but all I could manage was a small splutter, lik... | 1 | |
Inspiration from r/showerthoughts | [WP] A surprise party where instead of everybody popping out at once, people gradually pop out throughout the party. | [
"My mom liked tin foil, A LOT, and she also had memory issues. Go figure. It was my 14th birthday and I was pretty excited. I really wanted a Game Boy Advance or a submachine gun that could shoot lasers.\n\nMy mom was wearing a fancy dress like she was about to go to church, it was yellow with flowers on it and ... | 3 |
[WP] A man has lived far beyond his time, and was meant to die years ago. But every time the Reaper came, the man was in the middle of something so interesting, that Death did not want to interrupt him. | [
" A mild electric rattle was heard behind him. He jolted and turned around. And there was the Reaper. Not what you expected, just a middle aged Slavic looking fella with a long scythe. He was wearing jeans with a wide belt and a sleeveless shirt. Simply put, he looked like a filthy Russian wife beater. \n\n\"I hav... | 6 | |
[WP] You find an old notebook of yours on the shelf full of unfinished ideas and projects you had as a kid. You resolve to make your younger self happy by completing every last one of them. | [
"Does it matter what someone wants when they are gone?\n\nMy grandmother died when I was eight. She died relatively young, and we hadn't been close. Her room upstairs was always too clean and white and boring, and I was very easily bored back then. I liked my grandad's house better, because he had sepia photos and ... | 2 | |
[WP] For as far back as you can remember, every second of every day, you've heard a ticking noise in your head that no one else can. Then, as you wake on your birthday, you realize it's stopped. | [
"Day 2 \\- April 11th 2018\n\nOkay I don't really know how to do this but I've decided to start this journal to document what the hell is going on. So far everything around me seems to be working fine so I'll probably take some videos and what not but I'm not sure how long the power will stay on. Actually I'm not s... | 1 | |
[WP] Reincarnation is real and for every good and bad deed points are added or substracted to your "Reincarnation Points". These points determine your next reincarnation. When you die you realize you have been reincarnated as a fly. Of course your memories from your previous life are intact. | [
"So this is it? This is the punishment I get for all my crimes? All those years i spent trying to repent and the **Big Guy** punishes me to be a *\"Maggot in death as I was in Life\"*. Jokes on that guy I'm only gonna' be like this for 48 hours, ha 48 hours of feasting and fucking. \n\n\nIf I'd of known this was it... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a soldier in Earth's Army, sitting inside your tent alone the night before a decisive battle, writing a letter home that will in 100 years be featured on Ken Burn's descendant's documentary- THE NEPTUNE WAR | [
"Mariah, \n\nI’m not sure when you’ll get this. Even with the new system in place it’s getting harder and harder to send communication off planet. By the time you get this I’m not sure what will have happened to me. Whether I’m alive or dead will be something of a mystery. I don’t say that to scare you. I have ever... | 3 | |
[WP] You are an ordinary FedEx mailman. After a long day, you find you still have one more letter to deliver, and the location is Hell. You decide to deliver the letter. | [
"“Oh Lenny, it’s not going to be the same without you.” Mrs. Duchamp smiled weakly at her mailman. She was going to miss the portly moustachioed man that brought some joy to her dull days. Her cat apparently felt the same as he wasted no time rubbing against Lenny’s legs.\n\n“I’m gonna miss you, Mrs. Duchamp. And y... | 1 | |
[WP] You see the same person waiting at the train station every morning, as you walk past. Only, the train station has been closed since as long as you can remember. Today, you decide to talk to them. | [
"\"I see you here every day,\" I told him. \n\"I'm always around,\" he replied in a voice that creaked out of his jagged smile. \n\"Don't look like the train's comin',\" I continued, unsure of even why I had stopped to chat this morning. \n\"Well, it'll get here when it does. As things do.\" \nI turned my he... | 8 | |
[WP] The Demon Lord of Hell is far from home. With what little powers of fire and brimstone he has left, he braves the frozen and forlorn wastes of the North, searching, for a way back home. | [
"The Demon lord was lost. His only comfort was the remaining fire in his heart, warming his whole body.\n\nHe had tried to defend his lands from conquest, against another nameless country trying to take over Hell and 'save' the souls of their loved ones.\n\nHe trudged along in the cold and unfeeling snow, whose eve... | 1 | |
Saw it on an AskReddit thread about the humans using 'Endurance Hunting'. | [WP]Dread it, run from it, the human still arrives. | [
"Umbra was collecting the *mystren* eggs when she heard the drums. \n\nHer gentle hands, which were gently brushing the scaly spine of the nesting *mystren*, froze. Her eyes flew to the entrance to the moss-covered chamber. The lizard groaned and pushed against the girl, slithering back to its nest.\n\nThe drums ca... | 4 |
[WP] Eleven jurors agree that a young boy is guilty of murder. Only Juror number 8 is doubtful, secretly suspecting that he himself is the real murderer. | [
"The rest of the jurors stared at him in amazement. What could he be thinking? The prosecution had the kid dead to rights, and everyone knew it. His DNA had been all over the girl's body, she had been found only a block away from his home, and he had no alibi. On top of that, witnesses had seen him leaving the pub ... | 1 | |
[WP] "You can't begin to comprehend the power within this mask." | [
"\"That's a plexiglass SWAT visor.\" I told the overlord.\n\n\"Excuse me?\" he asked, wearing the visor which clashed with his metal armor.\n\n\"Plexiglass. It's a material they make back at my home. Plastic.\" I responded.\n\nThe overlord turned pale. \"I was going to lock you up and have you lead me to the riches... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a six/seven year old. Your parentes tell you the vacuum cleaner is responsible for socks going missing but you know better... | [
"This was it. It was finally the night i was going to confront my parents.\n\nMy socks have been going missing for about three months now, originally they told me that the vaccuum hoovered them up, but as a pattern began to emerge, i became suspicious, afterall exactly one pair of socks every week, yeah right!\n\nI... | 1 | |
[WP] All vampires are gifted with ethereal beauty, elegance, and seductive charm. You are Dave, the balding, overweight vampire. | [
"hello, im dave. the transformation went a bit off course from the norm of creepily hot. instead of becoming seductive, i became genial. im like that one great grandfather all families should have. the guy who gives advice, always has a joke or story to fit the occasion, and just generally a cool old man. instead o... | 4 | |
[WP] The astronauts onboard Apollo 11 carried fake footage of the moon landing shot on Earth in case they were unable to land on the moon. They were successful but by mistake, transmitted the fake footage back to Earth giving rise to countless conspiracy theories over the years | [
"“So, Neil.” Thomas O. Paine glared at Armstrong over his horn\\-rimmed glasses.\n\nNeil let out a nervous chuckle.\n\n“This isn’t funny, Neil.” Tomas’ fingers tapped rhythmically on the desk in between them.\n\n“It was an honest mistake Dr. Paine.” Neil spread his hands in an apologetic gesture. “There’s just so m... | 1 | |
[WP] John has a rare desease - all of his senses has 24 hour delay. He purposely lives each day the same way to syncronize delay. But one day his routine goes wrong. | [
"\"My heart rate is 21% higher than normal, ma.\"\n\n\"Are you sure you didn't exercise or something dear? The weather was beautiful yesterday and the sun came out finally. Your father was out in th-\"\n\n\"No ma! It's not part of my routine! It's Tuesday! Not Saturday!\"\n\n\"Honey, you shouldn't snap at me. Your ... | 1 | |
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Been lurking here for a while and just wanted to contribute something too! | [WP]Ever since you were a child you loved spy movies, the dramatic dodges behind walls to escape certain death. One day while drunk you step around a corner and then double back, for "fun" just as a bullet rips through the floor in front of you... | [
"I drew my jacket over my shoulders as I stepped through the huge doors of the theatre. It was the last showing of the night, and I'd had the place almost entirely to myself. Summer had yet to fully arrive, and the nights were still cool.\n\nI set off through the darkened downtown, a little amped up on the particul... | 2 |
[WP] Having learned that their destiny involves causing the death of a loved one, a character tries to cheat fate. | [
"I've never understood where our traditions came from but they were certainly more than just idle practice. On our 13th birthday each of us are given a prediction from a designated elder. One that will tell us the most important decision that will come in our lives. We were to keep it secret and treat it like our d... | 1 | |
[WP] As far as you can remember the five of you have been best friends. One day while hanging out you bump your head, but as you wake up you see your friends for who they really are. The Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse | [
"*you 5 are running through the woods happy as can be. You all are the best if friends. You trip on a root and your head slams into the tree.*\"ugh\"*you grown as you look at your 4 friends and near pass out. They... they... THEY ARE THE FOUR HORSEMAN*\"OH GOD DON'T KILL ME\"*you cower in fear and they look confuse... | 2 | |
[WP] In a not-to-far-from-reality dystopian society, your economic value is determined purely by the number of viral posts you inspire or create. With literally everyone vying desperately for attention, describe a day in the life... | [
"I wake up in the morning and dump my bucket of cut out trending words on the table. \"Baby Real Elsa Poop Spiderman Frozen Finger-Family Death Real Minions\" are the words that landed face up. This is the title of my new video.\n\nI then film my hands playing with cardboard cut outs and making strange noises. Some... | 1 | |
[WP] Every time you click your mouse, an awesome event happens to you the next day. | [
"As fun and exciting as it was at first, soon the thrill of receiving a free taco turned sour. For every click, there would be a taco. Checking emails made up a family pack, editing a document netted a feast, and playing a strategy game yielded an end to world hunger.\n\nBut, in my woeful ignorance, I doomed the wo... | 1 | |
[WP] You’re a guardian angel. Its a thankless job, mostly following around your human for their entire life while invisible. It can get pretty dull without much “guarding” happening. One day your charge suddenly stops walking and says, “you still haven’t figured out I can see you?” | [
"It is real simple. Really though. Everyone is assigned a guardian at birth. Alas not every guardian is the same, and not all of them are really excited about doing this. Usually after the few years where we are really needed(looking at you babies that are only out to get themselfs killed) we just get a little bore... | 2 | |
[WP] Three brothers travel to Pakistan, taking upon themselves the mission to kill bin Laden. The only military training and knowledge they have are from Hollywood movies and video games. | [
"“Crikey, it’s warm out here”. Stepping out of cool, air-conditioned Benazir Bhutto international airport, Rod fanned his face and pulled his light camo rucksack off his back. “Equipping day vision goggles” His brothers, Stan and Dave, laughed, as he pulled a pair of aviator sunglasses out his bag, which he leans u... | 1 | |
[WP]: You've been ageing backwards. It's becoming an inconvenience. | [
"\nMadeline Popper came home from work at 4:15 P.M. sharp every day, which meant I had exactly one hour to write my note that would break up our six year relationship for good. As an elementary school teacher, she made far less than I did, so I didn’t hesitate much in deciding to leave the furniture, my TV, and my ... | 1 | |
[WP] When your best friend sacrifices himself to save you, you decide to resurrect them as an undead so you can continue your adventures together. | [
"Hehe 2nd story here we go xD\n\n\\(Sorry in advance if you don't like it.\\)\n\n\\(Also the grammar errors that you, the reader, might find here, sorry about that too\\)\n\nDay 173\n\n\"RIICCKKKYYY NOOOO!!!!\" I shouted as my friend Ricky blocked an arrow headed for me. With my anger, I killed the archer who shot ... | 1 | |
[WP] The heads of seven nations were assassinated this week. A friend just texted you an hour-old video with over 500 million views. In horror, you watch footage of each assassination enacted by the same person. You. As the video ends, you hear sirens and squealing tires outside your house. | [
"As I swiped away the tears denoting the end of this year's *The Office* binge, I glanced over at the kitchen. My phone had constantly been buzzing almost as loud as the baby crying next door; clearly some Nigerian Prince was trying to get more than just my SSN. Or, I really shouldn't think like this, Rico was havi... | 2 | |
[WP] You've been dating a girl for a while now, the day you propose marriage to her she confesses, she's the last of a race of shapeshifters, after she tells you this, she gives you the choice to become a member of her kind, and wield the awesome power that comes with it. | [
"“I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?” \n \nShe looks back at me with those bright, round eyes that I’ve grown to love. She does not say anything, but continues to stare at me. I can feel my throat start to go dry; what is she thinking? She breaks her gaze and looks at the ring box I’... | 2 | |
[WP] it's 2367, scientists have been found something on Pluto's moon but aren't releasing the info to the governments, but one day out of nowhere Canada goes silent, no flights, no contact and soldiers are posted along the border. And no one knows why. | [
"I'm Lieutenant Mike Connors, soldier in the United Colonies Marine Corps. I'm stationed near Malta, a small city in ruins. Malta is in the Northwestern United States, near the border to Canada.\n\nThree years ago, 2367, war was declared on Earth by the aliens. We on the field call 'em Beavers.\n\nThe Beavers are a... | 1 | |
[WP] Future seers tend to be very successful, but every one of them turned to the dark side eventually and became history's worst mass murderers, tyrants and dictators. One day, you saw into the future, thousands of years into the future. You decide to use this knowledge for good. | [
"I woke in my bed, turned on the lamp, then reached for the pen and notepad I kept on the nightstand to write my dreams. Writing out what I could remember helped me put the images into a cohesive prediction that I could work with. This one was easy to remember, but deep down inside I knew I could change it. \n\n\"E... | 1 | |
[WP] As a young god in school you are tasked with creating a world with free will that doesn't destroy itself. You are the only one that succeeds. | [
"\"Let there be light!\" I said.\n\nAnd there was light. Then I created a small blue planet with oceans and land orbiting that light. After that I created a big gas planet to take in all the left over stuff i didn't need. They said i was over engineering it. I swirled the orbits around my fingers, what would go he... | 3 | |
[WP] Browsing IMBD you stumble across a show that seems to be about your life, featuring a lead character that looks like you, and a cast of characters that look like your friends. You also notice that show is in the horror genre and that it’s in it’s final season. | [
"It started off as an evening of reflection and anxiety. To find that a show had been made about my life, it was as if someone had taken my reality and turned it violently around. I wanted to binge-watch it, yet at the same time I could not bring myself to. How could I mentally relive the events in the show, knowin... | 1 | |
[WP] You were born with the power of extreme luck. While just trying to walk to the grocery store, you end up saving the world. | [
"Her words still bounced around in his head. *Sam, today's your lucky day. I'm going to show you the time of your life. I just need you to get six things. Chocolate syrup. A block of cheese. Salami. Toothpaste. Dry dog food. And condoms, of course.* He walked with a pep in his step. The grocery store held the keys ... | 1 | |
[WP]you wake up in a locked room with 8 strangers. a note tells you that the first one of you to fall asleep dies. | [
"Light scattered across dying cracked concrete walls, embedded in the concrete hung cold shackles. Rusted to the schackles was a filthy maroon glue that travelled it's way down to him. Cold, lingering, dead eyes which stared off into the distance.\n\n\"What's your name?\" The voice travelled, my eyes still focused ... | 1 | |
[WP] Everytime your ear rings it's actually you narrowly avoiding death in a parallel universe. Where is the strangest place you've died and how did it happen? | [
"I was up one night, I have a condition where if I think about it for too long, I can *make* my ears ring. I never really notices until then.\n\nWhen I was up that night, barely able to sleep, I could feel it. I could feel the death of myself over and over. Some were me stabbing myself with a pocket knife to stop t... | 1 | |
[WP] Prisoners are allowed to bet years on their sentences if they win they give time away if they lose they take the time from another prisoner. For the last 30 years you have been losing bets to help people get out. Now you have to win yourself out. | [
"30 years. 30 long, hard years. Now was my chance for freedom and I was damn well not going to let it pass me by. \n\nI shouldn't even be here in the first place. It all started in my late teen years. Having gotten a bit rowdy one night I was involved in an altercation outside a pub, nothing much. As I'm sure you c... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an angel sent from heaven to work in a hospital and save lives. After 15 years you had never lost a patient and your boss begins to get suspicious | [
"\"Excuse me, Dr. Jones, I'd like a word with you please.\" My supervisor leans in through the door. I'm slumped on the floor, next to my partner, Dr. Xiao, who is snoring perhaps a little too loudly. Not that he doesn't deserve it; the two of us just worked 8 hours straight piecing together this kid's leg, bit by ... | 1 | |
[WP]Humans are unique in having internal racial division,and are the only species to develop egalitarianism before First Contact. Alien ambassadors, expecting a species with no concept of "others", are shocked to be met with open arms. | [
"\"What?\"\n\n\"Yeah, it's weird. They just kinda looked at each other and smiled.\"\n\n\"What's a smile?\"\n\n\"Human way of showing that they're okay with our presence.\"\n\n\"WHAT.\"\n\n\"Yeah, something about how they can pick apart minute differences in skin tone or whatever.\"\n\n\"Huh. So they're racist then... | 1 | |
[WP] In a strange twist of fate you meet your other self, only to find out you might be the evil one. | [
"It was Battle of Honor, BoH - online strategy game of medieval life, where I met him. \n\nOn the information section I got the warning message about cheating, the player who was playing against me used identical fingerprints to log in. To play with two different players was against the rules. It was an easy and un... | 2 | |
[WP] You’re now a lonely old man with a lawn. You want to say *those* special words. But none of the kids ever come near you. You sit on your porch chair waiting for the day it happens. That is, if it ever comes. | [
"I heard a sound in the distance and dismissed it irrevocably. A scraping noise like a snow plow, but in the middle of summer. On my right side the children were playing hockey in the street again. It gave me fond memories of the time I played basketball on this very street when I was their age. \n\nThe noise was t... | 8 | |
[WP] For the past two weeks everytime you look in a mirror your reflection looks more ragged and beat up today it seems to take its dying breath to say "The danger is coming I held it off as long as I could." | [
"I looked different.\n\nThe difference was hard to peg down. A haggardness perhaps. I didn't feel tired, but I looked it. My fingers traced along my cheekbones, pressing against the patches of skin beneath my pale green eyes. Everything felt normal. Maybe it was the lights. Shrugging, I straightened my tie, flipped... | 1 | |
[WP] Some kids get dogs, cats, or fish for their first pet. Your first pet is a blob of grey goo; a small, amorphous mass of uncountable nanobots. | [
"It was sort of cute, in a shiny, shifty way. Not that it mattered all that much, being almost certainly the wrong size.\n\n“ Are you absolutely sure my order didn’t get mixed up somewhere along the way?” I asked the customer service representative, hoping to all things hallowed that I could get a straight answer f... | 1 | |
[WP] After an accident occurs, you finally find out that you have the ability to take objects out of screens into the real world. | [
"Preface: nothing straightforwardly inappropriate. You'll know stuff if you look it up.\n\nAn abalone steak sits on a paper plate in my lap, it's no bigger than a pinkie nail.\n\n10 seconds later and it's full size. Ever since I first bought this from that vendor in Mother 3 I had wanted to try it. \n\nBut screw th... | 1 | |
[WP] Squirrels all around the world have inexplicably gained close to human cognitive ability. Researchers have observed tribalistic tendencies as well as religious rituals. It is believed that squirrels have entered their own Paleolithic period. | [
"\"Hows the research coming?\" My wife said to me after handing me a cold beer. \n\n\"Exhausting. The code crackers cant make heads or tails, no pun intended, of their damn chattering. The pictographs are pretty self explanatory and rudimentary but their sounds dont seem to make any logical sense.\" \n\nMy wife sat... | 1 | |
[WP] You are god and you created humans in your image. You’re slowly realizing that was a HUGE mistake | [
"They have my eyes to see this beautiful world I made them. They have my ears to hear birds sing in the morning telling them I love them. They have my nose to smell flowers and the sea. They have my creativity, so they can take this world I made for them and make it their own. They have my strength so they will nev... | 1 | |
[WP] You live in a society where everything is legal as long as it’s written in a contract and the conditions are met. Most people hire people for killing, but you have more...strange needs... | [
"The idea first came to me ages ago, long before I moved to the area. The truth is, I came here for a specific purpose. Generally speaking, I'm not so easily angered and very rarely do I engage in violent activities, but when I do I become drunk with madness and I tend to lose control of myself, so I elected to tak... | 1 | |
[WP] When you defeated the tyrant, their final words to you were "Thank you." Years into your reign, your decisions have become increasingly unpopular. One day, you find yourself in a fight with some young upstart who calls you Tyrant. | [
"The Sovereign took aim with his pistol and shot the revolutionary, shattering her collar. She collapsed, curled into a deformed fetal position.\n\n\"You've damaged your spinal cord,\" said The Sovereign.\n\n\"...muh...monster...\" cried the woman in between sobs of pain.\n\n\"Did you think this was going to end li... | 1 | |
[WP] Everyone, with no exceptions, dies at the end. | [
"It had come down to this, it was now. Phil had managed to power up the Sky Sword. It was time to fulfill what he had promised to his mother those many years ago. I shall not reveal the power of the sword for it is too mighty for even a mere mortal to read about but I can reveal the power he had was 10 times as muc... | 4 | |
[WP] You invent a telepathic lock that can only be opened by the correct thought. You choose a password that's incredibly unlikely for anyone to think. Many years later, someone accidentally opens the lock. | [
"\"See it's not a word. It's not a password, exactly.\"\n\nShe said it was a password on the phone. It just looks like a decorative chest. This isn't a crime scene anymore, so she was able to get her weird puzzle box back, and it's still speckled with blood. \n\n\"It's not. A word.\"\n\n\"Not really.\"\n\nShe'll be... | 1 | |
[WP] You are not a time traveler, but a time thief. You use your abilities mostly for good, taking time from the healthy and giving it to the dying so they can spend a bit more of their last moments with their loved ones. A recent doctor’s visit reveals you have a terminal illness. | [
"The touch of death and the breath of life, after all these centuries, together again. Of course to each other, Desmond was just his baby brother and he was the older brother Lyle. Though they hadn't spoken over the years, their minds were intertwined at birth. First Lyle decided he wanted things to live, and in sy... | 3 | |
[WP] You are the heir of a family of criminal masterminds, mafia bosses, assassins etc. Otherwise you live in a normal house and go to school. In the weekends and holidays you help out in the family business. Life was normal until you brought a partner home and forgot to tidy up your room beforehand | [
"Shit. Shit, shit, thrice shit. I knew something wasn’t adding up when I got that “super urgent” last-minute order. And now I’ve got this idiot in my room. Only dealing with his blood-soaked ass would have been just another annoyance. However, with June standing by my side, this was a tough one. \n\nMy family has b... | 2 | |
[WP] Your toddler starts casually recounting it’s past life. The issue? You ended it. | [
"I go to pour myself a whiskey neat and end up making a mess. I can't stop thinking about something Ethan said today. I've practiced all the chicanery of fatherhood: the stern looks, the vocal inflections. Hopefully one day I can intimidate just from a raised eyebrow like the best fathers. But what do you do when y... | 1 | |
In very fine print on the bottom of the box: **Refurbished by xPhone contracted labour.** | [WP] Your eccentric Uncle Rick, who once sent you a real lightsaber for your birthday, just dropped off another gift: a one year prepaid xPhone2217 "Now with Aetheric and Netheric access, Personal Defence Mode, and over 30,000 teleportation spots preprogrammed!" | [
"I press the only button on the device. The screen flashes brightly and then, in stunning holographic text:\n\n> Welcome to AlphabetOS 3.1 \n©2136 Alphabet Interstellar \nAll Rights Reserved and Defended.\n\n\"Hello,\" it says aloud. \"So I can protect your privacy and obey your commands better, I nee... | 1 |
[WP] After 100,000 years of solitary confinement, Earth's sentence is over. A representative from the galactic government has arrived on Earth, only to discover that we completely forgot about the rest of human civilization. | [
"\"uh guys, we have an issue.\"\n\ni had just returned to the ship after realizing there had been a major change in species on the planet we never noticed. the people of earth used to be able to control elements and the forces of the universe. but now they are just humans, nothing like the species they called gods.... | 1 | |
[WP] She pulled the knife from her chest and smiled. "Was that supposed to hurt?" | [
"As she pulled the knife, his eyes widened. He stammered, stumbling backwards.\n\nThe girl took a step forward, holding up her hands and smiled calmly at him. The silvered blade shined under the streetlights.\n\n\"Was that supposed to hurt me?\", her voice sounded genuinely curious.\n\nThe man opened his mouth and ... | 1 | |
[WP] "I like fire. Burning things makes me feel alive again." | [
"Chris followed Jacob into his room and they waited for the sun to set below the tree line and for the stars to come overhead. They waited a bit longer for the soft thuds of Jacob’s parents to pass and listened some more for the click of the lock on their door.\n\n‘Ok now.” Jacob slowly turned the handle and guided... | 2 | |
[WP] In a world where one day almost everyone on Earth begins to develop super powers for unknown reasons, from the mundane to the almost godlike, you're one of a tiny minority in society who remains ordinary | [
"I guess I got to be famous at last.\n\nI’m the only one in my town. One of two in the region, and one of six in the country. We are the tiny minority in a world that’s fast changing, and it seems as if we will not be changing with it.\n\nNo one can tell us why. Doctors have studied our bodies, chemists have run te... | 1 | |
[WP] On the far end of town exists a small Bar. It’s main patrons are video game heroes-Master Chief, Gordon Freeman, etc. during one of the occasional bar fights, a legendary character steps foot into the bar: Doom Guy. | [
"“I outrank you! Sit down!” Price shouted. \n\n“I’ve been here since you were failing boot camp!” Master Chief shouted back. \n\nPrice strode over to Chief looked him dead in the visor. “Listen up tin man, I out. Rank. You. So sit your cyborg butt down.” \n\nChief responded in a very simple manner-kicking him acros... | 1 | |
[WP] The rabbit hole is infinite. There is no beginning or end. All who go in have never gone back. Your friend went in 20 years ago. Today, he knocks at your door. | [
"The cat got out. Haven't seen it. Left the door open, like Mel always nags me for, and like I always nag her back. \"That cat's not going anywhere, never stepped foot outside in its life.\" Door hanging wide open as my eyes and my jaw, wide as my fat, hopping veins dancing around in my neck while I stepped over th... | 1 | |
[WP] You're the most beautiful girl in your small town. All the men are in love with you. All the women hate you. One day, a woman comes to you and begs you not to take her man. "My happiness depends on you and whatever you decide to do, Jolene." | [
"Jolene looked at the woman standing in her doorway. The rain might have stopped but it had soaked her to the skin. She was shivering slightly but didn't seem to notice. Instead she was babbling something about “taking her man”.\n\n“What the hell you talking about?”\n\nThe other woman blinked in surprise. Jolene l... | 1 | |
[WP] "You don't get to just walk away from being a god" | [
"I lay there as Doc whips up 51 stitches across my abdomen. I've already lost enough blood to fill a kiddie pool, but I'd rather keep my insides inside of me for now, so I walked on over to his place to get me all set straight. Couldn't sleep anyway. I only wonder how long he's got. Not too old to disappear prematu... | 12 | |
[WP] You are a completely ordinary person, but everyone you know is convinced that you're a superhero and hell-bent on proving it and some of them have taken it too far. | [
"“Alex, your test.”\n\nI opened my eyes, waking up from an odd dream that was slipping through my hands. I received the paper that my teacher was handing me, easily noticing my perfect grade: a B. It was such an even, nice letter to receive as a grade. It was the average letter grade US students would get; it was a... | 2 | |
[WP] Humans discover intelligent life on a planet with gravity too high for rockets to land or make it back to orbit. | [
"We always knew, you know? Like, we didn't have proof, but you don't need to proof to know. You know? Proof just shows that you were right. You don't have to wait to be right, to know. We just knew. There was no way in such a vast universe that we were the only intelligent life. No way. But as decades of res... | 1 | |
[WP] You are a single parent working two jobs to help your daughter finish college. You have a third job as a contract killer. You never reveal your face or your identity to potential clients. Someone just offered you a contract on your baby girl. | [
"Sitting in silence, like always, facing my new client. It is the first meeting of the contract. \nYou know, when me and that other guy usually talks about who I should kill and all that, pricing, preferences.\nFunny thing is, this time I am not the only one covering my face.\n\nThat's a first.\n\n\nCan't say I hav... | 5 | |
[WP] Hell is not a mythical place made up by the religious to control the masses. It is a real place that was built by an ancient, forgotten, civilisation who kept criminals eternally alive while torturing them. One day, quite by accident, you stumble into Hell… | [
"\"You think it's stable here?\" I asked my partner and fellow archaeologist David. Greek ruins aren't as structurally sound as they once were. 2,500 years of weathering and decay will do that. \n\n\"Uhh, tie yourself off and we can test it.\" \n\nWe were in a carved out cave system the Greek people mined for years... | 1 | |
[Wp] write a story in which there is an incredibly technologically advanced people and incredibly magically advanced people | [
"For a long time, Tim had trouble finding work. He was so average in every way, that it seemed like he'd never land a solid gig, much less find something meaningful. He was on the shorter side, and he'd done well enough in school to pass everything, but he'd never excelled, per se. He'd never even resonated with a ... | 1 | |
[WP] You fight an invisible assailant. You never know when it will attack and no one can sees it, see you fighting it, nor can they see the wounds it inflicts. | [
"I don’t remember the first time he hit me, or when my legs crumbled beneath me and I can’t quite remember where I was either. But I woke up from a coma that felt like someone had taken a sledgehammer to my cranium. I felt different, empty, alone, embarrassed. I had to calm myself, I had nobody to turn to, nobody t... | 1 | |
[WP] You and your friends wake up to find that you have been turned into your party members for your Dungeons and Dragons campaign | [
"The first thing i noticed upon waking up was that my very fingers hummed with power, cantrips just an utterance or a gesture away, crackling beneath my skin. The second thing was the fact that i had played a female elf to \"mix it up and get out of my comfort zone.\" It appeared, however, that my companion the d... | 2 | |
[WP] Every night, the same dream. | [
"\"I just got a new doggy named Poochie. I wanted to call her Poochyena, like the Pokemon, but my mom thought that was too long of a name. Anyway, I really love my dog, but I keep having this nightmare about her. It'll make the most sense if I just tell you how the nightmare goes. \n\nI'm sitting with my dog on the... | 1 | |
I hope this isn't breaking rule #3, so don't read this if you want unlimited creativity/no recipe. If you want to see "my recipe" or need more promoting, I'd like it if someone to bake my flour into their cake (write it using their style), so here are details I would've used if I had any writing skill:
Perhaps when ... | [WP]Someone with racing, obsessive thoughts is told by a therapist to chose their favourite childhood memory and go to this "happy place" whenever they get the obsessions. One day they realise that the reason they chose this memory is a lot more sinister, and the memory turns on them. | [
"My thoughts were racing again, my mind felt like it was a rat in a cage. I shuddered and closed my eyes to go back to my happy place from my childhood like the therapist said to do. My happy place was the steam in the woods. This was were I always went as a child when I was upset, it was the only place that made... | 1 |
Basically Jonathan Livingston Seagull afterlives, applied to any useful skill you can think of. | [WP]You spent your whole life working on improving a single skill. After you die you find an afterlife where everyone who did the same ended up. | [
"\"It's not really the most useful skill. More like a parlor trick, like juggling. It's really more a matter of keeping them up in the air than anything else.\"\n\nMy acquaintance was seated in front of a baby grand piano where he had been playing something sad. He had the look like I almost knew him like from a te... | 1 |
[WP] It is the year 2083, and you are an employee for a small startup shop named Introspect Computer Repair, the first company to use VR to interact with a device's "inner world" and solve problems from the inside. Tell us about your first experience diving into a customer's device. | [
"“This is one of the steps we need to take before we are able actually enter physically into the System”, he said; handing Pandora the headset. “You will be able to visit each of the continents in turn, so that you can look for any coding issues that we may have missed. Any major bugs will need to be reported and a... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to step into a mirror world, where everything is exactly the same except there are no animals or people. You use this ability for your own selfish gains, but one day you find out why there is nothing else in that other world. | [
"You stare at your hands, stuck in the same frame of a movie. A thousand pieces of shattered glass. Time is time which will always be time. A moment saved in perpetuum.\n\nYou know this man. You've read his story, studied his death. For eighteen years, his home has been your playground. Trinkets from past friends l... | 2 | |
[WP] She says its time to let him go, time to unplug. | [
"\"There has to be something else we can do. Something we haven't thought of. Something...\" the voice trails off. The voice was tired; from stress, from working long hours, from staying up for too long fueled by coffee and the occasional 5 minute lunch break that ends 4 minutes early. \n\n\"We've tried everything ... | 1 | |
[WP] Canadians are patient, kind, and understanding creatures who would never harm a fly. That all goes out the window when they have to deal with Canadian geese. | [
"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,\n\nKnees knocking, terrified, we ran through the city\n\nAs the demonic geese pecked at our backs\n\nGiving no respite, showing no pity.\n\nMen fell behind, shoving their families on\n\nAs they were lost to the heartless swarm.\n\nCovered in down, praying for dawn\n\nWe b... | 1 | |
[WP] You are the chosen one, or at least thats what the general public thinks of you, in reality you're just a public figure that politicians use to make the public think they're doing something about the evil dark lord, lately though you've decided to actually try defeating the dark lord. | [
"The crowd cheered as I paraded down the main street. The castle loomed heavily in the distance, its dark shadow creeping ever nearer. I stood tall, my sword at the ready. I turned to the growing crowd behind me.\n\n\"For too long, Phazod had terrorized the people of this great nation. Many have faced him, but none... | 1 | |
[WP] Your new neighbour is quiet, reserved and very private. One day, you hear a strange noise and notice odd lights from his/her back garden, and when you look you see him/her appear from those lights. He/she is a time traveller. | [
"\\- Khhrkh! Bzooooot! Wooooee!\n\nHe was awoken by strange noises.\n\n\\- Eeeoooo! Vvrevrevre! - the rather unusual soundscape continued to drill through his inner ear and into his brain. The noise at first seemed to come from a broken vacuum cleaner, but it quickly disolved into static and other unrecognisable no... | 1 | |
[WP] You provide tech support for authors. Not for computer problems, but for writing problems. | [
"Hello, you've reached Writing Woes. How can I help you?\n\n**Er, yeah. I'm stuck.**\n\nStuck how, sir?\n\n**With my writing idea.**\n\nOh, okay. What is wrong with it?\n\n**I don't have one.**\n\nAh, I see. Have you tried turning it off and on again?\n\n**My computer's working fine. How would that help?**\n\nNo, s... | 1 | |
[WP] "Oh, and everyone likes horses, right? Ponies and all that prancy garbage. Thing is, here, if you come across a white horse turn around and walk away. Don't go toward it. Don't even look at it. Because if you do, it will try to get you on its back and it will drown you." | [
"They call it a white nightmare, not only because of their fetish for wordplay but also because the description is rather accurate. I wish I was aware of this before I found out first hand.\n\nIt was my first time in the land of enchantment and I was warned that unsavory characters here were far more dangerous than... | 2 | |
[WP] You have super powers, but every time the city needs saving, you're sick in bed. | [
"The door to the bank's vault tumbled through the city streets, leaving a wake of crushed cars and fluttering dollar bills. The nefarious Dr. Deadlift hoisted a pallet of gold bars weighing hundreds of pounds above his head. He cackled with glee as a hail of bullets bounced harmlessly off of his chest. He strode... | 1 | |
[WP] You have the ability to steal other people’s powers, and you’ve used it to devastating effect, becoming the cruelest super-villain the world has ever seen. One day you steal powers from a super-empath, causing you to feel all the suffering you have wrought. | [
"Power. Something I needed. Something I had. Something I could take. Something I craved. I craved the power to do as I wished. And so I took it. I took all of it. The power to fly. The power to heal. The power to be completely invincible. I took it all, and made it mine. And I laughed. Oh, did I laugh. To watch the... | 5 | |
[WP] It is common to see a portrayal of the stereotypical emotionless alien being taught how to love by humans in the media. However, when we make first contact we soon learn that, by their standards, we are the emotionless ones, and they want to fix that. | [
"\"**I WARNED YOU!**\" Brian yelled, advancing on the alien \"doctors\", his body covered in gore. \"**I WARNED YOU HOW DANGEROUS UNCHECKED EMOTION IS BUT YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN!**\"\n\nBrian never considered himself a very aggressive man, he'd much rather buy someone a drink than punch their lights out, but apparentl... | 3 | |
[WP] Two kings have been engaged in a bitter war for over a decade, each one performing strategic marvels from his throne. Unknown to both of them. Both of their armies have long since shaken hands and gone home as friends. The entire kingdom is in on it. | [
"Two titans \nThey clashed \nA thundering army\nEach boasted so brash \nAnd with a deafening roar \nThey collided \nTwo worlds unhinged \nNot knowing which titan \nWould come out on top\nYet the the outcome it seemed \nWas already stopped \nAs a new shiny king \nHad already been crowned \nAs the outcome was preorda... | 9 | |
[WP] “Using engineered viral agents, the oblivious human test subjects are replaced cell by cell with superior synthetic counterparts; bone and muscle is reinforced and eventually replaced with carbon nanotubes; when Project: ANKH is finished, we will have evolved our species within one generation” | [
"\"Using engineered viral agents, the oblivious human test subjects are replaced cell by cell with superior synthetic counterparts; bone and muscle is replaced with carbon nanotubes; when Project ANKH is finished, we will have evolved our species within one generation.\"\n\nThat's what the proposal had said, what t... | 2 | |
[WP] You have the ability to leave your body and wander as a spirit for a specific duration of time. Last night you went to wander and when you came back you see yourself making breakfast. | [
"I stood in front of the kitchen window where a woman with long platinum blonde hair was carrying a pan with a sunny side egg inside. She took a seat at the mahogany table and began to eat her breakfast.\n\nWhat was I doing? \n\nWhere am I supposed to go?\n\nLast night, I went about my routine rendezvous about the ... | 8 | |
[WP] And the Lord said unto John, "Come forth and you will receive eternal life", but John came fifth, and won a toaster. You're John. | [
"John wakes up to his alarm and looks at time time. It is 4:25 pm.\n*Oh shit! I'm late* He thinks to himself. \nHe shuffles out of bed, grabs his nicest clothes in a hurry and runs out the door.\nHis car, an old and rusty Volkswagen Beetle has some trouble starting. \n\"The hell is this now?\" He says to himself, g... | 1 | |
[WP] You take your regular night boat ride at the small lake close to your house. You drift asleep as soon as fog begins to roll in, and you wake on an island that you've never see before, with another person in the boat with you. | [
"My head was groggy and I could taste blood in my mouth. That bitter, coppery taste that makes you want to wash your mouth or vomit.\n\nMy head was killing me, and the fog all around the boat made it impossible to see. Why wasn’t I home yet? I thought to myself. The boat ride is so short, and I’ve taken it a millio... | 1 | |
[WP] You are an ancient god of pure evil, aeons ago you were banished to an alternate dimension. Your cultist have finally succeeded in summoning you. The only problem is that you actually like the alternate dimension better | [
"Burning, swirling fires, chanting and groaning, phlegm and corpses, shapes and sygils, burning, swirling. The recognition dawned on the beast in the Eye, this was the ritual he had created.\n\"Our lord is returned\" exclaimed a devotee, \"Ripped from the hellscape in which you were imprisoned\"\nThe booming, bello... | 3 | |
[WP] In your house there is a window that cannot be opened. When you look out from that window, you don't see your world. | [
"You put blackout curtains on the window the day after you moved in, just because the sight of it gave you migraines. When you had first gone through the house, you hadn't noticed it at all—it looks so close to what should be out there that you just thought it was the same view at first glance. But the day you move... | 3 | |
[WP] The devil will destroy earth if you deny his request. What he wants from you? To do the most embarrassing thing anyone has ever done and it has to be in public. | [
"“*Sanctus Satanas... Sanctus Satanas… Ave Satanas!*”\n\nWith a final cry, Daisy collapsed to the floor. The air felt heavy around her, crushing her into the stained carpet. She could see the flames of the blood red candles start to grow; oily black tendrils of smoke dancing together. The smell of sulfur was thick ... | 4 | |
[WP] So tell me again Elon Musk, “are you positive I’m the right person to go to mars?” Said Dead Pool. | [
"Musk seemed pretty serious about this choice, \"Has he finally gone bananas?\" Was all Wade could think of at the time.\n\n\n\"I sure am, mister Wilson, your regenerative abilities are the only ones apt to survive on Mars' surface\" \n\n\n\"Well, at least that confirms you haven't gone bat-shit crazy, Elon\" Dead... | 1 | |
[WP] James Bond enters a bar to meet his newest accomplice for his latest mission. As he sits down to brief his mission he introduces himself to his new partner. “Bond, James Bond. And you are?” The man answers with “Wick. John Wick.” | [
"James Bond was not amused. He had gotten a call from the Spy Development centre and the scientist had started excitedly babbling in his ears.\n \n “Yes…..finally succeeded….2…never in….come in.. say hello.” Bond had gathered that they wanted him to \ncome in to the lab, however even as a top agent, he could ... | 4 | |
[WP] A women is found unconscious in the middle of a busy city. Her body is marked with names and dates, some are glowing red, some are striked out. | [
"I strolled down the city of New York at night admiring the gloomy atmosphere wondering what my next case would be when I saw something red glowing in the corner of my eye. I stopped and turned to see a women clad in black with cuts in her skin. As I walked closer I began to notice that the cuts were in fact names ... | 2 | |
[WP] When a child is born they are given a watch and when that watch stops the most important moment of their life is about to happen. | [
"It stopped on the beach. I was given a watch when I was born; parents said it was in some gift basket sent to them, they didn't know where it came from, but there was some ominous note, \"When the watch stops, the most important moment of your son's life will begin.\" It stopped on the beach. I looked around. Ther... | 1 | |
[WP] You work in a one story building with an elevator. Management has told you never to go in it | [
"As I pick up my final design from the printer, I look over at *it*. It's unassuming, really. Just a sliding metal door with a panel by it's side, a standard elevator. We'd never need it, the building's just one floor as far as I can tell.\n\nI head back to my desk to wrap up for the night. The boss gravely told me... | 2 | |
[WP] Every time you die you get reborn as an infant and you’re gonna get the memories of your past life when you reach 21 years of age. | [
"\"Happy birthday,\" the group sang out as their glasses clunked together. Joey was happy that he had such good friends and couldn't imagine spending his 21st birthday with anyone else. He took a long swig from his first legal beer as everyone talked and joked around him. \n\nBy two in the morning the group was st... | 1 | |
[WP] You're new in town and you don't know anyone. Walking down the street you realise everyone is fascinated by you. They nudge their friends and point you out like a celebrity. They all seem to recognise you. You decide to approach the next person you encounter for answers. | [
"I picked her because she seemed to be the only one that wasn't *as* completely enamored with me as everyone else appeared to be. Everyone in the street was staring at me like I was some type of celebrity. And she was staring, too. But almost like she was staring... *beyond* me or something.\n\nIf that makes sense.... | 1 | |
[WP] Bob Ross does a Minecraft tutorial on how to build a house. | [
"*The Joy of Building, with Bob Ross.*\n*Season 27, Episode 13.*\n\n“Welcome back. This is the last show of the 27th series and I’m glad you’re with us today.\n\nI thought we’d go crazy today and just do a little building. I just want to see what happens, okay?”\n\nCobblestone in hand, he returns to the blank slate... | 1 |
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